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Long-Term Disability
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Roberts Disability Law Blog
Court Upholds Employer’s Denial of Long-Term Disability Benefits and Rejects Fiduciary Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege
In Pasha v. Kohler Co., No. 24-CV-0836-BHL, 2025 WL 2840242 (E.D. Wis. Oct. 7, 2025), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin upheld Kohler Co.’s decision to…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
District Court Remands Long-Term Disability Claim for Vocational Review After Finding Chevron Wrongly Denied Benefits
In Daniel C. v. Chevron Corp., No. 3:24-cv-03851-SK (N.D. Cal. Oct. 1, 2025), the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted judgment in favor of the plaintiff,…
Austin Personal Injury Blog
What Are the Top 10 Disabilities?
By Valeria.rodriguez@lawrank.com
Claiming short- or long-term disability can help you maintain yourself financially if you have suffered a serious injury. These injuries can occur as a result of workplace accidents, slip and…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
Federal Court Reinstates Benefits, Rejects Unum’s Narrow View of CEO’s Occupation
In Logan v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Co. & Unum Group, No. 1:24-CV-113, 2025 WL 2723542 (E.D. Tenn. Sept. 24, 2025), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
Oregon District Court Finds Unum Wrongfully Denied Long-Term Disability Benefits
In Koehnke v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 6:23-CV-00819-AA, 2025 WL 2682390 (D. Or. Sept. 19, 2025), the District of Oregon held that Unum improperly denied long-term disability…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
Court Awards Over $117,000 in Attorneys’ Fees and Costs to Prevailing Plaintiff in ERISA LTD Case Against Unum
On September 16, 2025, in Mundrati v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America d/b/a Unum, No. CV 23-1860, 2025 WL 2653588 (W.D. Pa. Sept. 16, 2025), Magistrate Judge Patricia Dodge…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
District of Massachusetts Finds Unum’s Denial of LTD Benefits Arbitrary and Capricious
On September 11, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts issued a notable ERISA decision in Rogers v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America & Unum Group,…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
Court Orders Over $314,000 in Attorney’s Fees and More Than $740,000 in Benefits to Prevailing Plaintiff in ERISA Long-Term Disability Case Against Unum
In Wessberg v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. CV 22-94 (JRT/DLM), 2025 WL 2624369 (D. Minn. Sept. 11, 2025), a recent decision from the District of Minnesota, the…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
Court Awards Over $230,000 in Attorneys’ Fees to Prevailing Plaintiff in ERISA Long-Term Disability Case Against First Unum
On August 27, 2025, the Southern District of New York issued an opinion in Macalou v. First Unum Life Insurance Company, No. 22-CV-10439 (PKC), 2025 WL 2463624 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 27,…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
First Circuit Affirms Insurer’s Discretion in Terminating Long-Term Disability Benefits
In Bernitz v. USAble Life, No. 24-1598, —F.4th—-, 2025 WL 2463092 (1st Cir. Aug. 27, 2025), a dispute over the payment of long-term disability benefits, the First Circuit sided with…